Cover Letter (Applying at Triad Martial Arts)

Dear Mr. Malone,

My name is Dakota Amrhein. I have trained in martial arts since I was seven years old and have practically grown up in the dojo. I am passionate about teaching self-defense that works. Nothing excites me more than helping students on their journeys to becoming the best-version-of-themselves and watching their confidence grow. I want to change people’s lives, each in their own ways, just as how my senseis did for me. I want to provide a positive role model for young people. I love the positive work environment with people I like and values that align with my own.

I have been put in charge of leading groups of kids at aikido class for as far back as I can remember. I learned to teach and lead by example and foster good core values in my classmates and the students under me. I was able to develop strong leadership skills there, and even more so as a tour guide and camp counselor at Star HB Farms. In my role at Star HB Farms, I was required to talk to customers every day, handle angry customers and address their complaints or concerns, which will translate to talking to challenging customers who come into the dojo. My passion for the art gives me the ability to inspire my students to work hard to be the best.

• I won 2020 Grand Champion of Triad and was the lowest rank to ever win that award
• Black Belt in Yoseikan-Budo Aikido
• Green Belt in Triad Karate
• Praised as one of the top five most devoted, disciplined, and committed students at Triad
• Fought and placed in 7 NAGA tournaments across the United States in 2021
• CPR and Pediatric First Aid Certified with Red Cross

I love Triad because it is legit. All of the instructors are constantly improving their skills and getting better with their students, building a family, and finding more effective ways to do things. I think that Triad is the best martial arts school in the southeastern United States and I hope to help Triad step up our game even more by taking the strengths I’ve learned from my other dojos and bringing them here. Since I am a cross-trainer and I train at as many different places as I can, I have a lot of new things to bring to the table.

Thank you for your time. I would love the opportunity to speak with you further about my passion for this position and what skills I would bring to the job. Thank you for considering my application.

Sincerely,

Dakota Amrhein

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Is Jail Working?

“Is restitution to victims better for society than jail sentences for criminals?”

The main benefit of prison is for criminals who are too dangerous to be anywhere else to be locked away in order to keep society safe. If prison was only used in this way, I wouldn’t have a problem with it. But the majority of people in prison aren’t killers. They’re shoplifters, burglars, or they committed smaller, pettier crimes like possessing or selling illegal drugs.

Our current system barely works and could be so much better. When a criminal is sent to prison to serve his sentence, he’s not paying any restitution to anyone. The taxpayers, including the victim of the crime, is forced to pay taxes to support these criminals in prison. That’s counterproductive.

Most jails aren’t the kind of environments that are needed for rehabilitation. Most prisoners have a reading age of ten years old when they enter jail. If citizens are already being forced to pay taxes to maintain prisons, they had better be doing something productive or it’s a waste of money. Educational programs in jail could help correct this problem. The criminals are unemployable when they go into jail, and are definitely unemployable when they leave jail with a criminal record. If you were caught with some weed and go to prison, after you have been released you are far more likely to commit a crime than if you had never been to prison.

The most economic way to deal with a crime is to treat the problem that caused the person to offend. The people we send to prison have problems. Whether it’s mental illness, lack of anger control, impulsivity, or whatever it is, they have a problem. And we do nothing to try and solve this problem, and then release them. Why should we expect anything to change? If anything, sending them to prison (decreasing their chances of getting a job) means their lives are much harder and they are much more likely to need to commit crimes to survive. Einstein famously said that madness was repeating the same exercise without changing variables, and expecting change. This is exactly what we’re doing, with huge expense to the taxpayer.

Ideally, we’d be like Norway. Where offenders go to prison, learn some essential skills (E.G. learning a trade, attaining higher levels of maths and English, therapy and behavior counseling) and then pop out right back into society. They would get a job, and then pay tax, and become a functional egg.

The Catholic Church on the Eve of Reformation/The Ninety-Five Theses

Writing assignment: Answer both of the following questions.

(1) How would you describe the condition of the Catholic Church on the eve of the Protestant Reformation?

On the even of the Protestant Reformation, the Catholic Church was at the lowest it has ever been. It was struggling with corruption and lack of integrity amoung the churchmen. Some priests and bishops were more interested in monetary concerns than safeguarding the integrity of the Catholic Church. Not only were they more focused on finding ways to make money off of their office, but they were also ignorant and thus incompetent for their jobs because they had little if any training at all. As and before the Protestant Reformation was taking place, the Catholic Church was undergoing its own reform. Many Catholics had already been seeking change for years, and began to reform the abuses; That didn’t stop the Protestant Reformation because Martin Luther’s view was that even if people followed the teachings, the teachings were the problem.

(2) What were the Ninety-Five Theses about? What was the basic message of Luther’s complaint?

In 1517, Luther posted the Ninety-Five Theses to the Church door in Vittenburg. These were a series of propositions, given in Latin, that Luther was prepared to debate regarding indulgences. No one came out to debate Luther, but once the theses were translated to German, and thanks to the invention of printing, the theses spread throughout Germany. Martin Luther wasn’t just saying that indulgences were being abused or poorly explained; he was saying that the entire teaching was church-made and that you could never be sure of the time you will spend in purgatory. Luther’s opinion on indulgences was what rose him to international prominance as he began his reformation.

How Christianity Changed Roman Culture

1) In what ways did Christianity represent a departure from the ideals and practices of ancient Greece and Rome?

When Christianity was first formed, it was very different from the other religions around it at the time. One of the biggest differences being that Christianity was a monotheistic religion, while Greeks believed in the existence of many gods. There was also the huge difference in their values. The Christians valued things like love, peace, forgiveness, humbleness and compassion, while the Greeks and Romans admired war heroes, victory, and battle. The Christians set a big emphasis on ethics and morality.

Christians established systems of care for orphans, widows, sick, and poor, bringing a new spirit to charitable work. They recognized people who needed help and saw it as their responsibility to help them. They helped their enemies and even those who were persecuting them. And, they showed all of this compassion to the poor without any ulterior motives behind it. They weren’t caring for the people with the “What’s in it for me?” perspective, thinking about how the person they were caring for would owe them a favor back. They were doing it because they saw a need for help. The Christians were the first to help these people in need with kindness and compassion. Many Greeks were willing to help those in need, but they did it in a different spirit. The Stoics taught to endure pain and hardships without displaying their feelings and without complaint. When the Stoics found someone in need, they would help them, but they would not sympathize with them or “walk in the shoes” of the needy.

Western Civilization

Lesson 75 Essay

Why Was the Peloponnesian Wars Fought?

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After the Persian Wars, the Greeks united together and decided to come up with a solution to prevent the Persians from attacking their cities again. The solution was to form a league with the Spartans – the Delian League, which was named after the Island of Delos where its treasury and temple of Appolos resided. The main purpose for this league was to have a defensive alliance of city-states under the direction of Athens. However, as part of the league each city-state must supply naval ships or a certain amount of money for the Military.

Overtime the Persians threat of invasion no longer troubled the people, and since the military wasn’t needed at this point in time, the city-states started to wonder where all their money was going. Before long they started pointing bony fingers at Athens accusing them of taking their money and with good cause, for the Athenians…

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